Retired officer asks for badge, ID from Lorain PD

LORAIN — A former Lorain police officer who had his own run-ins with the law hopes to get a Lorain Police Department retirement badge, according to a letter sent to Lorain City Council.
Corey Earl, 52, of Lorain, is asking Council’s Police and Fire Committee to consider his request.
Earl also sent a letter to Lorain police Chief Cel Rivera to inquire about getting a police retiree identification card and badge, according to city records.
“In late 2009, I retired honorably from the Lorain Police Department after suffering a devastating stroke that left me partially paralyzed and disabled,” Earl wrote in his February 2013 letter to Rivera.
Earl said he later spoke to Detective Buddy Sivert, who was president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lorain Lodge No. 3, to ask about the retiree credentials.
“Buddy told me you denied my request,” Earl said in his letter to Rivera. “Afterward, I felt deeply hurt and could not understand why you allowed other officers with tarnished careers to have their retiree ID and badge, but you wouldn’t allow me to have mine.
“I am formally requesting that you give me the same opportunity as other retirees and issue me the same items.”
In November 2011, Earl pleaded guilty to forgery and passing bad checks, according to court records.
He was placed in the court’s diversion program. In diversion, defendants may have charges dropped and get court records expunged if they complete court-ordered requirements.
Earl successfully completed his rehabilitation and his case was dismissed, according to an Oct. 31, 2012, ruling by Lorain County Common Pleas Judge Mark Betleski.
Earl was accused of committing the offense Sept. 19, 2009, and was arrested Feb. 26, 2010, according to the indictment.
The charges pertain to an incident involving Earl “cashing a check that belonged to someone else,” Lorain County Prosecutor Dennis Will said in an earlier Morning Journal news report. The case was investigated by the Lorain Police Department, Will said previously.
From 2007-09, Earl had a string of run-ins with police due to reports about alleged conflicts and incidents involving him, his ex-wife and an ex-girlfriend, according to previous news reports.